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Trump Pushed CIA to Give Intelligence to Kremlin
July 8, 2020 at 9:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 92 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/08/trump-pushed-cia-to-give-intelligence-to-kremlin/
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Just Security: Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers? One answer to that question may be the extraordinary response that Moscow received when the Trump administration learned of a precursor to the bounty operation
First, President Trump decided not to confront Putin about supplying arms to the terrorist group. Second, during the very times in which U.S. military officials publicly raised concerns about the programs threat to US forces, Trump undercut them. He embraced Putin, overtly and repeatedly, including at the historic summit in Helsinki.
Third, behind the scenes, Trump directed the CIA to share intelligence information on counterterrorism with the Kremlin despite no discernible reward, former intelligence officials who served in the Trump administration told Just Security.
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lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)2naSalit
(86,647 posts)Get him out of power NOW!
Fuck!
Takket
(21,577 posts)Can you even imagine if Obama did this? There would be an inferno of breaking news horror across every media platform there is...
Fir drumpf? It is just more background noise everyone will forget about in two days.